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From Belarus to Gaza, Turkey to the United States, journalists are being jailed, harassed, silenced and killed. What happens when those who tell the truth become targets?
The BBC’s “error of judgment” in editing Trump footage has handed his legal team new ammunition - and raised hard questions about trust, bias, and the future of public broadcasting.
The streaming behemoths have created an odd sense of detachment, and certain listeners are seeking grassroot comforts that only community radio can provide.
Labor has the ideal ABC for 2025-31 – a powerful and complacent woke-left propaganda-ministry. The broadcaster’s overdue shunt of overrated Laura is typical.
The portrait of Meta that emerges is disturbing, as have been the company's efforts to silence Wynn-Williams, who has registered as a whistleblower with the US Securities and Exchanges Commission.
At times, Canberra is another world. From its Press Gallerycomes this Financial Review bedtime-story of 'best performer' Jim Chalmers with his 'disdain for' inequality..
The latest report, however, in the The Economist about the impending Australian federal election casts strong doubts about the journal's knowledge and understanding of Australian politics.
Williams makes a point of juxtaposing the weak, impressionable consumer of news and those of Rogan and his tribe of entrepreneurial podcasting fantasists.
While this proposed legislation will prove ineffectual in achieving its intended purpose – here, protecting the prelapsarian state of childhood from ruin at the hands of wicked digital platforms – it will also leave the apparatus of hefty regulation.
